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trigger warnings

Cornell University rejects a student call for trigger warnings

John Fea   |  April 4, 2023

Here is a taste of the Cornell University Student Assembly’s Resolution 31: “Mandating Content Warnings for Traumatic Content in the Classroom”: Abstract: Urging university officials to require instructors who present graphic traumatic content that may trigger the onset of symptoms […]

Trigger warnings in the college classroom don’t work

John Fea   |  September 17, 2021

Here is Amma Khalid (Carleton College historian) and Jeffrey Aaron Snyder (Carleton College education professor) at The Chronicle Review: The origins of trigger warnings date to the 1970s, when post-traumatic stress disorder was codified as a psychiatric condition, the symptoms […]